350 BULLETIN 100, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



32216 and 32217 A.N.S.P. Pago Pago. Bureau of Fisheries. I^eugth, 158 to 



228 mm. 

 27725 to 27727 A.N.S.P. Padang, Sumatra. Messrs. Harrison and Hiller 



Length, 158 to 280 mm. 



CHEILINUS FASCIATUS (Bloch) 



Sparus fasciatus Block, Naturg. Ausl. Fische, vol. 5, 1791, p. 18, pi. 257. 

 Japan. — Shaw and Nodder, Nat. Miscellany, vol. 18, 1806, pi. 755 

 (Indian Seas). 



Cheilinus fasciatus Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 14, 1839, p. 92 

 (Mauritius, Seychelles, Batavia, Moluccas). — Ruppell, Neue Wirbelth., 

 Fische, 1835, p. 18 (Red Sea). — Bleeker, Atlas Ichth. Ind. Neerl., vol. 1, 

 1862, p. 67, pi. 26, fig. 2 (Java, Duizend Islands, Sumatra, Singapore, 

 Nias, Celebes, Flores, Amboina, Banda, Coram). — Cunther, Cat. Fish. 

 Brit. Mus., vol. 4, 1862, p. 129 (Amboina). — Kner, Reise Novara, Fische, 

 vol. 2, 1865, p. 251 (Java). — Gunther, Fishes of Zanzibar, 1866, p. 89 

 (Zanzibar).— Day, Fishes of India, pt. 3, 1877, p. 394, pi. 84, fig. 1 

 (Malay Archipelago). — Meyer, An. Soc. Hist. Nat. Madrid, vol. 14, 

 1885, p. 35 (Macassar, Cebu, Mysore, New Guinea). — Elera, Cat. 

 Fauna Filip., vol. 1, 1895, p. 550 (C. de Cebu). — Evermann and Seale, 

 Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 26, 1906 (1907), p. 93 (Bacon).— Weber, Abhandl. 

 Senckenberg. Ges., vol. 34 (1), 1911, p. 8 (Kei Island).— Snyder, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 42, 1912, p. 508 (Okinawa).— Weber, Siboga Exp., 

 vol. 57, Fische, 1913, p. 364 (Salibabu and Feer). — Fowler and Bean, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 62, 1922, p. 51 (Cebu). 



Chilinus fasciatus Klunzinger, Verh. zool. bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 21, 1871, p. 

 555 (Koseir, Red Sea). — Gunther, Cruise of Curacoa, Brenchley, 1873, 

 p. 410 (Solomons); Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, vol. 7 (15), 1881, p. 246, 

 pi. 134 (East Indies, Solomons, Pelew Islands, Gilbert Islands, Vavau, 

 Ponape).— Day, Fauna British India, vol. 2, 1889, p. 399. 



Labrus enneacanthus Lacep^de, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 3, 1802, pp. 433, 

 480. No locality. 



Cheilinus enneacanthus Fowler, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., ser. 2, vol. 12, 

 1904, p. 539 (Padang). 



Cheilinus quinquecinctus RiJPPELL, Neu. Wirbelth. Fische, 1835, p. 19, pi. 6, 

 fig. 1. Djedda. 



Cheilinus nigropinnatus Seale, Occas. Pap. Bishop Mus., vol. 1, No. 3. 

 1900, p. 86. Guam. 



Depth 2}4 to 2%; head 2% to 2%, width 2 to 2^. Snout 2}/^ 

 to 33^; eye 43^ to 6%, IK to 3 in snout, 1 to 2 H in interorbital ; 

 maxillary reaches about J4 to eye, 3 to 3K in head; interorbital 3 to 

 4H, convex. Gill rakers 7 + 6, very short points. 



Scales in lateral line 14 or 15 + 7 + 2; 2 scales above lateral line, 

 5 or 6 below, 7 or 8 predorsal. Scales with 7 to 9 basal radiating 

 striae, with 4 to 6 incomplete auxiliaries; apical and marginal 

 radiating striae 28 to 32; circuli very fine. 



D. IX, 10, I, ninth spine 3 to S}4 in head, eighth ray 2}i to 2}i ; 

 A. Ill, 8, I, third spine 2% to 33^, sixth ray 1% to 1 3^; caudal IH 

 to l}4, emariginate, convex behind when expanded; least depth of 

 caudal peduncle 2 to 2 3/g; pectoral iVa to l-^; pectoral 2^ to 2}^. 



